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Quarterly Newsletter
Book Arts Roundup

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Rocky Mountain
Chapter Board
SALT LAKE CITY
CHAIR & EVENTS

Ethan Ensign
DENVER CHAIR

Pamela Luetz
DENVER EVENTS

Sammy Lee
TREASURER

Emily Tipps
NEWLETTER EDITOR

Lang Ingalls
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The summer newsletter

will be out
in mid-June;
please send
contributions to
lang@eidolonpress.com
by June 12.

This newsletter is a
publication of the Rocky
Mountain Chapter of the
Guild of Bookworkers,
and is distributed to its
members. To become a
member, please visit:
guildofbookworkers.org

from the Chapter Chair in Salt Lake City

Greetings from Salt Lake City. It looks like we are finally emerging from a long hard winter! Our
last gathering was cancelled due to weather (it snowed 6 inches that night!). Our new meeting is
scheduled for:
Book Gathering and lecture at the Red Queen
6:00 PM, Friday, March 22, 2013
171 East Broadway, Salt Lake City, UT
Please attend our book gathering it will be a potluck event (snacks and desserts) with a walkthrough and lecture by the owner of a new bookstore in Salt Lake City that specializes in bookarts!
Melissa Sanders has been a bookseller for more than 10 years and worked for her father at Ken
Sanders Rare Books, as well as other stores. She has recently opened her own store and we have
been invited to have our book gathering there! Her lecture is titled Selling Bookarts. See you
there.

- Ethan Ensign
scruboakbindery@gmail.com

from the Chapter Chair in Denver

Dear Rocky Mountain Chapter Members,

Happy day-light savings time! Not everyone is a fan of the time change, but I love it because I
can return home after work, go for a hike and still have daylight left to work at the bench. I hope
to do a lot of that as spring turns to summer.
Ill be traveling to the Czech Republic in May to work on bindings with bookbinder Jarmila
Sobota. We will work mostly on miniature bindingsshe sells her limited editions online and at
the Miniature Book Society Conclave, this year held in Vancouver. Upon my return, Ill write
an article for our RMC newsletter about my experience there regarding our work and the book
arts in the Czech Republic.
Colorado College is offering Book & Book Structure: A Poetics of the Bookthis spring, taught
by poet, book artist/letterpress printer and proprietor of Cuneiform Press (www.cuneiformpress.com),
Kyle Schlesinger. He will offer a public lecture on Wednesday, April 3, at 3:30 PM in the WES
room in the basement of the Worner Student Center on the CC campus. Please come!
The exhibit Any thing that Is strang, works of Press Printer Aaron Cohick, will be on
display at Colorado Colleges Colburn Gallery March 25 - April 16, with an opening reception
on Friday, March 29, 4:00-6:00 PM. It will include the newest limited edition book, Orpheus the
stutterer: a poetics of silence written by poet and letterpress printer Alan Loney, letterpress printed
by Aaron and bound by CC students. Structured as a reading room and exhibition, this handson exhibition features books, broadsides, posters and other ephemera from two Colorado Springs
publishers of handmade books: the NewLights Press and The Press at Colorado College. The work
of both presses is focused on a critical engagement with the material word.
Many thanks to Sammy Lee for arranging such great workshops in the Denver area. Most
recently she arranged the workshop Let Me Count The Ways, taught by book artist and Scripps
College professor, Kitty Maryatt, on a plethora of sewing structures for book signatures. Keep a
lookout for these unique opportunities when we get world-class instructors coming to our area to
teach top-notch classes and workshops. Our newsletter lists great local classes as well.
Welcome new Rocky Mountain Chapter members!
Marvi Hjelmroos-Koski, Linney Wix, William Whitley, Kohleen Reeder, Katie Smith,
Jennifer Buchi, Daniel and Karleigh Heywood, Mahala Kephart, Kylie Ladd,
Louise Levergneux, Michelle Macfarlane, Andrew Rabkin, & Judy Sommerfeldt

We are so glad to have you join us, and I welcome you to contact me if you have questions or are
interested in becoming more involved. I want to especially welcome those members who are in the
Denver area and hope you will take part in the workshops, exhibits and meetings in the area.

- Pamela Leutz
TheThreadThatBinds@mac.com

CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES

Si m p le B ook Repa i r s fo r a t-ho me Cur a t o rs with Tomomi Nakashima, March 20 - April 17

BookArts Program: Salt Lake City, Utah; www.bookartsprogram.org
Material Mash-up: a Medley of Decorative Techniques with L. Decker, M. Toscano, E. Twitchell & J. Wilson, April 6
BookArts Program: Salt Lake City, Utah; www.bookartsprogram.org
Re pair, Rest ore o r Co ns er ve? Intro duc t io n t o Bind ing Tre a t m e nt s , with Chris McAfee, April 15 - 19
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
C l ot h Bin d in g, with Mark Andersson, April 20 to May 18 (Saturdays) & July 8 -12 (weeklong workshop)
Panther Peak Bindery: Tuscon, Arizona; www.pantherpeakbindery.com
Se win g St r u ct ures , with Brenda Parsons, April 22 - 26
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
Fu nd am en t als of Lea ther Bi ndi ng, with Monique Lallier, April 29 - May 10
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
Fu ll Leat h er Mi ni a ture Bi ndi ng, with Gabrielle Fox, May 13 - 17
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
Int e rm ed iat e/Adva nced Fi ne Bi ndi ng, with Don Glaister, May 20 - 31
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
Jo u rn al Mapp ing, with Jill Berry, June 1
Colorado Springs, CO; www.jillberrydesign.com
Fu nd am en t als of Go ld To o li ng, with Don Glaister, June 3 - 7
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
Edge t o Ed gier, with Peter Geraty, June 10 - 14
American Academy of Bookbinding: Telluride, Colorado; www.ahhaa.org
Tu n n el V ision with Laura Decker & Emily Tipps, July 13
BookArts Program: Salt Lake City, Utah; www.bookartsprogram.org
B o ok Repair, with Mark Andersson, July 15 - 19
Panther Peak Bindery: Tuscon, Arizona; www.pantherpeakbindery.com
T he Su mm it Calli gr a phy Co nference, July 20 - 28, Colorado Springs, CO, www.2013calligraphyconference.com
An Intimate Atlas, with Jill Berry
Resolute Imagery: from the Universal to the Particular, with Laurie Doctor
The Mutable Majuscule & Chroma Maxima, with Nancy Culmone
B oxes & En clos ures , with Mark Andersson, July 22 - 26
Panther Peak Bindery: Tuscon, Arizona; www.pantherpeakbindery.com
T he Am az in g Dremel with Jill Timm, July 26 & 27
BookArts Program: Salt Lake City, Utah; www.bookartsprogram.org
Bl i s s Bee Jou rna li ng, with Jill Berry, July 27 - 29
Bisbee, AZ; www.jillberrydesign.com

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W E B B R O W S I N G : Look

now For Summer & Fall Classes!

American Academy of Bookbinding Telluride, CO, Summerfield, NC & San Francisco, CA

Book Arts League Denver, CO www.bookartsleague.org
Denver Bookbinding Denver, CO www.denverbook.com
Panther Peak Bindery Tuscon, NM www.pantherpeakbindery.com
Kozo Fine Art Materials Denver, CO www.kozofineartmaterials.com
Art Students League of Denver Denver, CO www.asld.org
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www.bookbindingacademy.org

EXHIBITIONS

The Art of Paper - Remix, Ray Tomassos work; ongoing

Norlin Library (1st & 2nd floors), University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO; www.ucblibraries.colorado.edu/norlin

Book Cornucopia IV, April 19 - June 8

Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO; www.abecedariangallery.com

The Work of Casey Gardner, April 19 -June 20

Abecedarian Gallery - Reading Room, Denver, CO; www.abecedariangallery.com

Susan King Solo Exhibition, June 21 - August 3

Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO; www.abecedariangallery.com

Narrative Threads, June 21 - August 3

Abecedarian Gallery - Reading Room, Denver, CO; www.abecedariangallery.com

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EVENTS

Ga th erin g of t he Gui lds - Golden, CO - April 27, 9:00 - 3:00

www.coloarts-crafts.org
Presented by the Colorado Arts & Crafts Society Artisans Guild Forum. The intention in hosting the Guild Forum is that the common
goals and devotion to craftsmanship of each of the Guilds will lead to a wider promotion of fine craft in Colorado and an appreciation of
the place of the Arts and Crafts movement principles and values in the 21st century. GBWs Rocky Mountain Chapter will have a table.
Please contact Sammy Lee (sammy@studiosmlk.com) if you are interested in representing your work or demonstrating at the table.

Gh o st R an c h : Li ter a lly Letter s - Abiquiu, NM, June 17 - 23

Featuring workshops with Annie Cicale, Barbara Close, Nancy Culmone & Pamela Paulsrud.

www.ghostranch.org

Su s an K in g at Abeceda r i a n Ga ller y - Denver, CO, June 21 - August 3

www.abecedariangallery.com
Abecedarian Gallery will be hosting Susan King for both a solo exhibit and as visiting artist this summer. If you are interested in working
with Susan, either in a workshop or with a one on one critique, contact the gallery for more details.

The Summit Calligraphy Conference - Colorado Springs, CO, July 20 - 28

Three of our RMC members will be teaching at this fantastic international conference!

An Intimate Atlas, with Jill Berry

Resolute Imagery: from the Universal to the Particular, with Laurie Doctor

The Mutable Majuscule & Chroma Maxima, with Nancy Culmone

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P H O T O S : K itty Mar yatt in the Denver area

The Denver area Rocky Mountain Chapter and the Book

Arts League, a Boulder-based book arts group, co-hosted Kitty
Maryatt of Scripps College at the University of Colorado Boulder earlier this month. The Workshop, titled Let Me Count
the Ways, was well attended. The lecture, Joining Forces, was
a joint-lecture with our own Rocky Mountain Chapter Events
Coordinator Sammy Lee. Enjoy the photos!

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www.2013calligraphyconference.com

CALL FOR ENTRIES

2 0 1 3 Soc iet y of B o o kbi nder s Interna ti o na l B o o k b ind ing Co m pe t it io n

www.societyofbookbinders.com
There are five categories in the competition: fine binding, case binding, the complete book, restoration, and historic binding. The total
prize fund will be about 6000. The biennial SoB Conference takes place in Leeds August 29 - 31, 2013. All the books entered will be on
display throughout the duration, and prizes will be announced towards the end of the conference. The winning books will then form part
of a touring exhibition travelling to venues around the UK.
| Deadline for Registration: June 14, 2013
| Deadline for completed book(s): July 12, 2013

Fl o u rish Ar t isan Ga ller y - retail oppor tuni ty

www.flourishbreck.com
Open in Breckenridge, Colorado, Flourish is seeking handmade book arts or paper art works from Colorado artists.
| Submissions accepted: ongoing
| Contact: Holly Stein at: holly@hollystein.net or 970-547-4567

Mi n n esot a C enter f o r B o o k Ar ts - retail op p or tuni ty

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is actively seeking new artists books for consignment in its retail store.
| Submissions accepted: ongoing
| Contact: Elizabeth Carls at: bcarls@mnbookarts.org

www.mcba@mnbookarts.org

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MEMBER NEWS
Rocky Mountain Chapter member Laura Wait will be teaching this summer at Idyllwild Arts for a week in July. See www.idyllwildarts.
org for information. At the end of March, she will be moving to Santa Fe, NM; continue to reach her at laurawait@mac.com.
Rocky Mountain Chapter member Alicia Bailey sent this in: On March 29, I will be talking about a new project Bound that was
commissioned by the Denver Art Museum as part of their MakeArtTalk series. My talk will be given throughout the evening as part of
the Untitled series at DAM in the Asian Wing of the museum. More details here: http://www.denverartmuseum.org/calendar/untitled55-bound.
Rocky Mountain Chapter member & Roundup Editor Lang Ingalls requests members consider getting the Roundup in pdf format
via email. Send the request to her at lang@eidolonpress.com, subject line: roundup in pdf. Thank you!

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